A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS
OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
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Patton Courier, Established Oct., 1893
VOL 49. No.12.
NO AGTION YET ON
SIX DAY WEEK FOR
MINERS OF DISTRICT
Union Officials and Operators Do
Not Broach Subject at Con-
ference Last Week
Prospects of coal miners in this ar-
ea following in the footsteps of those |
comprised within Districts 3, 4 and 5
of Western Pennsylvania in the ad-
option of the six-day work week re-
main but a matter of speculation for
the future, both operators and miners
announced last Friday night.
No conference relating to the ex-|
tension of the work week for approx-
imately 50,000 miners in District 2 |
has yet been held or is contemplated |
it was announced by both the Cen- |
tral Pennsylvania Coal Producers As- |
sociation and officials of the United
Mine Workers of America.
Representatives of the coal produc- |
ers’ association and union officials of |
the district, meeting in routine sess-
ion last week in Altoona, did not bro-
ach the subject of the added work
day for the miner.
Mine operators and union officials
had been conferring on the question
of the six-day work week for the en- |
tire Appalachian bituminous field but |
sessions have been adjourned due to |
the walk out in the anhracite fields. |
Earlier last week in Districts 3, 4
and 5 completed negotiations for the |
six day week which gives the miner |
time and a half for a voluntary sixth |
day of work.
Reports from the Victory Produc-
tion Committee were submitted at the
joint meeting of the operaors and un- |
ion officials and the question of fur-|
nishing gasoline to workers who live |
a considerable distance from the scene |
of their employment was discussed. |
Plans for the maintenance of the high
production peak set this year were
made by the two groups.
Representing the operators at the
conference were President Charles O’-
Neill, Secretary-Treasurer Walter A.'
Jones, "Together "With “other members|
of the Central Pennsylvania Coal]
Producers’ Association, while Miners |
were represented by President James!
Mark, Vice President Clarence Don- |
aldson and Secretary-Treasurer Ed-|
ward Sweeney, together with district |
organizers and board members. |
Union officials of District 2 stated |
that the miners would welcome the |
opportunity to speed up production of |
much needed coal by increasing the
present 35 hour work week.
nA en
PENNSYLVANIA GAME
COMMISSION OREDRS A
QUERY TO BE STARTED|
— |
Harisburg. The Pennsylvania |
Game Commission last week ordered |
an investigation into what it describ-
ed as accusations ‘‘concerning the ac-
tivities or certain members of the |
commission using and appropriating |
fund, property and labor of the com-
monwealth.”
“A review of certain trial board |
hearings and activities reveal certain |
irregularities,” said a resolution set- |
ting up a committee to investigate |
the charges. |
The group was empowered to order
Executive Director Seth Gordon “to
suspend such employees and officers |
guilty of such irregularities pending
a hearing before the commission's |
trial board.”
| drafting men for the
NEW DEPUTY CORONER
John Strank of Franklin Borough,
deputy Coroner of Cambria County,
has resigned his position to enter pri-
vate business and *Coroner Patrick
McDermott has named as his success-
or Joseph J. Govekar, who was sworn
in on Monday afternoon by Prothon-
otary John L. Hite. A member of the
Franklin Borough police force for six
years and chief of the force for two
years, Govekar is considered very well
qualified for the deputy coroner's po-
sition. For the past five years he has
| served as secretary of the Franklin
school board. Strank was an outstand-
ing public official.
DRAFT TO TAKE MEN
FOR NAVY IN MONTH
The Nation's 6,5
boards have been notified to
Le Navy a:
rine Corps about February 1st
> now at work on their
id in Washington.
This means, it was pointed out, that
the February draft call
Navy and Marines will be much hea
vier than at present. Some of the lo-
cal boards, it is said, are
to call up twice as many men
nionth as for January.
Some controversy between the dif-
ferent branches exists. Navy and Ma-
rines, so far, have had higher physi-
cal standard than the Army. Proba-
start
Ma-
ana
lists, L 18
for Army,
next
bly the selectee will have a chance to |
state preference of branch of service
he wants.
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LORETTO COLLEGE HAS
RECEIVED MANY BOOKS|
St. Francis College, at Loretto, has |
received more than 4,000 books as a|
result of an appeal issued by school |
officials after the fire which destroy- |
00 local draft!
preparing
"PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1943
NEW ORDER ISSUED ON OVERSEAS MAIL WILL
HAVE DIRECT AFFECT ON MAILING OF PAPER
TO MANY OF PATTON AND VIGINITY SOLDIERS | 3s
Newspapers cannot henceforth| rust be discontinued at once un- Senor Sa ey Rev. John 2 :
itoffices } pee - ullivan, T, O. R., college president,
2 SC AT / st f1ces out- | less ¢ } 2S as 2C it : :
be sent to Army bos offices SS a written request has been | geclared it inadvisable to continue the |
side the United States unless an|{ made by the service man.
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j ak ; | Plans for the affair “St. Francis,” Fa- |
order for the paper has been re-| That means relatives or friends | ther Sullivan stated, ‘has always]
received, in writing, from
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The annual St. Francis College sen-
jor ball scheduled for January 22nd,
as been cancelled as the result of |
recent OPA bans placed on pleasure |
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the| of the service man cannot sub-|maintained the strictest feeling of pa- |
member of the armed service who | subscribe for the paper for him. |triotism. I know we will continue to |
desires it sent to him, according to| The order must come from the sol- | make i Sa0rirens for the
v |: . Pe . war effort. \rrangements are un-
{an order from the Postmasterjier himself. This new ruling, now : : Be a
pe }: 4 y ore 4 | der way for an event to replace the |
{ General. {In force, will affect scores of lo-
ball.
The order also provides that|cal service men overseas who have
iL
{the papers can be accepted for|been receiving the Press-Courier.|
| here is nothing we can do about | REGISTRANTS MUST
it. Nor can relatives of the soldier
provis-| overseas mail copies of the paper
nning February 1st, men of 18
who have been registered with
fol-|
service for months
must carry both cl
from publishers of
each wrapper
at the
have be
mailing only
newspapers and
be
ns of
must marked th
of their own accord.
At the same time the Postmaster
General ordered that
matter of the third class shall be
AT
LA
the order en
wed
Where a
ay
subser to the pa no circular
I
the
apply, but on its expira-| accepted for mailing to
ptron
. rp 1
1S In erlect
ect
Se tive six
cation and re-
gistration cards or f $10,000 fine
and 10 years imprisonment, I jamin
F. acting state draft director,
warns.
He urged all registrants who have
not received their initial classifica-
tions or who have lost their cards to
order
ny
ace
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WANY IN COUNTY
T0 GET TAX FORMS
WITHIN FEW DAYS
More Than Six Thousand Cam-
brians Will or Have Receiv-
ed Their Forms,
Evans,
Pn
Ein dd
ff the paper | postotfices overseas.
F
it i
ic GROSS PLANS
DRIVE FOR FUNDS |
IN COUNTY SOON
o
ptly.
tually “only a handful” of men in the
state who can be
linquent for failure to keep in touch
with their local boards.
Chapter Qoutas Not Yet Announ-
ced; McEldowney Named
County Chairman.
More than 6,000 Cambria Countians
will soon receive forms for return of
National Red Cross headquarters in
Washington advised the Cambria Co.
BORO GIRL
| BARNES
REGISTERED NURSE
| despite current
notify their local draft boards prom- |
Colonel Evans said there were ac- |
considered as de- |
‘SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR
ST FRANCIS PLANS
"GRADUATION LATER
IN THIS MONTH
|
Twenty-two Seniors Will Partici-
pate in War-Time Exercises
January Twenty-sixth,
Twenty-two be-robed seniors will
participate in the third war-time gra-
duation exercises at St. Francis Col-
lege, Loretto, and will be conferred
degrees by the Most Rev. Bishop Ri-
chard T. Guilfoyle, bishop of Altoona,
at exercises on January 26th.
The semester graduation services,
mandatory curtail-
ments, will embrace a complete pro-
gram of activities highlighted by the
commencement which will have the
Most Rev. Richard J. Cushing, auxil-
iary Bishop of the Archdioce of
Boston and head of the Society for
the Propagation of the Faith, as ora-
tor. The graduation exercises will be
ld jointly with the baccalaureate
inn St, Michael's Church, Loretto, and
a special mass and sermon will be of
fered.
Of the 22 to be graduated, 15 will
€ bachelor of arts degrees and
seven will be awarded the degree of
bachlor of Included in the
former group, with majors in educa-
tion, social sciences, philosophy and
business administration, are five of
the members of the Third Order Reg-
uiar of St. Francis, aspiring to the
priesthood, as follows: Robert Neg-
| herbon, Shamokin; Francis Postek,
| Millvale; Francis Dunegan, Audubon,
| N. J.; John Driesch, Ambridge; and
i John Yacinko, Scranton.
Others to receive the B. A. degree
Thomas A Daley, president of
k
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1VE
science.
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Chapter and other units throughout
the country last Thursday that the
goal of he 1943 war fund campaign
will be $125,000,000 and that Walter
S. Gifford, president of the American
the four mill personal property tax | {re
to the county. Clerks in the county
commissioners’ office at Ebensburg
have started the mailing of forms.
Returns must be made by Febru-
Miss Anna Marie Byrnes, daughter | the student council; Griardville; Ste-
{of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Byrnes | phen Alex, Windber; George Magulick
| of Barnesboro, has received word that |of Spangler; Howard Adams, Cress-
| she has successfully passed the state |on; Edward Brennan, Shamokin; Wal-
| board examination for registered nur- | ter Janik and John Yermack, Shen-
ed Old Main last October. The sch-|1clephone and Telegraph Company,
ool’s library of 18,000 volumes was {will be chairman,
lost in the blaze. A new library has | Chapter quotas have not yet been | At the same time returns of per-
been set up in the former garage of | announced. The county chairman 1S | sonal property must be made to the
the late Charles M. Schwab. It wil | Robert McEldowney. The drive will | state by February 15th. Payment of
have a capacity. of.10,000 volumes... Pe held in March and will combing! the foprsmill tax to theistate must he
{the annual Red Cross roll call and a | made when the returfis are sent to
| special appeal for funds to carry on | Harrisburg.
| the war work of the organization. No
{ membership effort was staged last
fall.
ary 15th, but payment is not due un-
| til the county taxes become due.
FATAL ACCIDENTS
IN CAMBRIA SHOW
BIG DROP IN YEAR
enty-four Died As Result of
Mishaps; Forty-three Num-
bered Previous Year,
- |
Collection of the tax by the county |
during 1942 showed a decrease of $6,- |
599.95, as compared with 1941. This |
According to Norman H. Davis, was due, it is said, to the lower av- |
Red Cross chairman, the goal is bas-| erage prices of stocks last year as |
ed on “realistic estimates which care- | compared with the average for 1941. |
| ful study reveals actually are needed | During 1942, the county collected
| to meet the heavy war time obliga-| $43 741.14 of a duplicate of $50.530.39
| tions of the Red Cross.” The sum is | while in 1941 the collection was $50.
| expected to cover local, national and | 341.09 of the duplicate of $57,831.62.
international needs for one year. i
| was established after a central com- |
mittee examined budget estimates of |
the national organization and 3,750
Tw
rlelurns must pe maae lwiders
of the following securities: sortgag-
es, promissory notes or bonds given
by individuals, judgments,
leaned or invested in other states, ter-
ritories or the District of Columbia or
foreign countries; public loans or |
Dy
The effect of tire and gasoline ra-
tioning on the movement of traffic TR
in roo Bn County in 1942 was re- | thaptors and 6 151 branches. :
flected last week in the annual re- | ot the total goal,” said : Davis, |
port of Corp. E. A. Munson of the] $45,000,000 is the sum required by |
Ebensburg substation of the State’s|t¢ Red Cross chapters to finance’ ponds jssued by any state or terri-
Motor Police. | their indispensible needs and their, tory, the District of Columbia, any |
A reduction of almost fifty per cent | €Ver increasing local work work on | fereign country, any political subdiv- |
in the number of fatal accidents was behest of Famili of men Jn the ser-| sion of it (these securities issued by
shown Corporal Munson, who is in| Vice. The remainedr or $80,000,000, | the United States or the State of
charge of the highway detail at the |V/!ll 80 to the national organization.| pennsylvania or any political subdiv-
Ebensburg substation, said 43 fatal Which, however, requires $100,000,000 | jsion of the state are exempt); bonds,
accidents occurred on county high- | to finance its national and interna-| hotes or any other form of certifi- |
moneys
ses. Miss Byrnes is a graduate of the
School, Johnstown, in the Class of
1942, and is now employed at the Mi-
ners hospital in Spangler.
gai Sng
ALL TAXPAYERS WILL
HAVE TO FILE THEIR
INGOME TAX REPORTS
At Least Fir
Will Have to Be Mede Re-
gardless of Other Action
Pay-as-you-go income tax propos-
als have instilled a false belief among |
the army of 27,000,000 income tax-
payers that many would escape the |
tax collector on March 15th and wor-
ried government officials have acted |
to prevent a possible “tax strike”.
To guard against any such devel-
opment Representative
South Carolina, chairman of the
House Ways and Means Committee,
and Senator George of Georgia, chair-
man of the Senate Finance Commit-
tee, issued a joint statement warning |
st Quarter Payment
Dougton, of |
ways in 1941 and only 24 in 1942.
These fatalities, however, are only
the ones occurring on highways out- |
side of boroughs and the
Johnstown. Officials of these politi-
cal subdivisions investigated the mis-
haps which occurred within the bor-
ough and municipality limits.
Corporal Munson reported 340 ac- |
{ cidents in 1941 and 130 in 1942; 123 |
city of
| tional program. The difference will be |
| met by a balance of $20,000,000 from |
| applied to the 1943 budget.” |
ount required by the national organ-
ization has been budgeted for direct
national services to the armed forces, |
Davis said. |
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the war fund of 1642 which will be | jimite
| of any corporation
More than 65 per cent of the am- | banks.
| personal property, owned by any res-
; ident where the legal title is vested
cate of indebtedness issued by any |
corporation, association, company or
d partnership; shares of stock |
except national |
returns and pay ‘at least” the first
installment on their 1942 taxes.
The joint statement, is was disclos-
2G, was issued at the request of
Others include all articles of agree-| Bureau of Internal Revenue
ment bearing interest; annuities, and |
interest in any of these classes of
taxpayers that they must file their!
the |
whose |
task it is to collect taxes levied by |
Congress. Bureau officials were said |
to be concerned over publicity which |
the Ruml pay-as-yao-go plan has re- |
President Ross L. Leffler of Pitts-| Persons injured in 1942 as compared
{in the person living in another state. | ceived.
COUNTY LEGION MEET
burg, absent from the session, charg-
ed some of his fellow commissioners |
were practicing “political subterfuge
in trying to get rid of” Director Gor-
don.
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In recognition of outstanding sch- |
olastic and military achievement dur- |
ing the first phases of his navigation |
training, Cadet E. F. Routch has been |
appointed lieutenant colonel of the A. |
A. F. Navigation School cadet detach-
ment. !
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Routch, |
Hastings, Cadet Routch will win na-
vigator Wings and a commission in!
the army air force upon the success-|
ful completion of his training Janu- |
ary 28th.
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JOBLESS BENEFITS DROP
IN THE KEYSTONE STATE
|
|
Pennsylvania's unemployment com-
pensation activities are declining, re-
ports “Trends and Tag als”, the mon-
thly statistical bulleun of the State
Bureau of Employment and. Unem-| this week in the Ccirt House at Eb-| French North Africa with the army. | retto, has been prom sted to the rank | Friday afternoon in an
ployment Compensation, as a result |
of “the acceleration of labor demand |
due to the war effort. |
“October applications for benefits |
dropped 10 per cent below the total |
for the previous month.” In Septem-;
ber there was a 37 per cent decline,
and in August a 30 per cent drop.
| SERGEANT BUNCH OF MOTOR J
POLICE, LEAVES EBENSBURG |
to 342 injured in the preceding year. |
Property damage in 1941 amounted |
to $78,154 The total in 1942 was $32,-
aq
332.
CANCELLED—NO GAS
| Because of gasoline rationing |
| and ban on pleasure driving a meet- | Seen |
ing the Cambria County Committee| Sergt. V. F. Bunch, who has been in |
of the American Legion scheduled for | charge of the Ebensburg substation
week was | of the Pennsylvania Motor Police for |
| cancelled. | the last four years, last week was
County Commander Fritz Morley | transfered to Troop A headquarters
of Barnesboro, in cancelling the ga-|at Greensburg.
thering, notified commanders of all| He was replaced in the important
posts in the county and stated that| position by Sergt. L. R. Feloni who
the next meeting will be held Tuesday | had been located at the Greensburg
evening, February 16th, in Ebensburg. | barracks. Sergeant Feloni previously
a ‘ | commanded the substations in Indi-
{ana and Somerset.
He was transferred to the Somer- |
Ee] set substation last September to re-
Paul Linsky, son of Mr. and place Sergt. J. A, Blair who was sent |
y to Indiana, Sergeant Feloni has com- |
LN
TY MERCANTILE
APPRAISER SUCCUMBS | Tuesday evening of this
|
COUN
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John Lawrence McMonagle, 44
years, Cambria County Mercantile
Appraiser, died last Thursday morn- |
ing at the home of his mother in
Westmont. He had been taken ser-
iously ill only two days before his
death, although he had been in poor |
health for some time. He was active |
for years in Democratic politics in|
the County, and served two terms as
mercantile appraiser. He was well
known to many people throughout
the county with whom he came in|
contact in the course of his duties. ! recently spent a furlough at his home
NT ji Spengler, ie hat been m ine ar- station was consolidated with the
COUNTY SPORTSMEN jy air force Sines Japuary 36: 1942.1 Jennerstown substation, Sergt. Feloni
w The soldier received his basic train- = ai a Dw
HAVE A MEETING | ing at Kessler Field, Miss., and spent | W283 transferred to Greensburg.
| the past nine months in Avstraliv)
The January meeting of the Cam-| Private Linsky has two brothers in |
bria County Sportsmen’s Association |service—Victor with the air force at
was held on Wednesday evenin~ of | ilearns, Utah, and Steve, on duty in| ©f Mr. and Mrs.
SPANGLER SOLDIER
REURNS TO THE U. S. |
Pvt,
irs. Steve Linsky of Spangler, has >
returned from duty in Australia and manded the Indiana station for about
. | eight years. {
In October when the Somerset sub- |
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GIVEN PROMOTION.
Secu :d Lieut. Robert . McCoy, son |
ay McCoy of Lo-|
tL
of first lieutenant at Camy Livings- |
ton, La., where he is serving with an |
He |
1941. |
|
ensburg. Plans for 1943 were made eV
and resolutions to be presented to the COAL OUTPUT RISING,
state federation were discussed. The Bituminous Coal Division of | ordinance ammunition company.
Election of officers for the ensuing | the Bureau of Mines has announced | enlisted in the army in March,
year also took place. The sportsmen | that progress is being made toward Vr
discussed plans to obtain a larger | stepping up the 1943 coal production —There is a time for all things. A
supply of fish for stocking purposes|by 80,000,000 tons to meet increased time for investing in War Bonds in
in this section during the year, needs in war time industry. on your pay days!
| tinents
| So, you had better prepare to file
your 1942 tax return, and also be pre-
pared to least the first
stallment.
pay at in-
. Vv
YOUTHS BADLY HURT
RIDING ON SLEDS
Two north county children are pa-
in the Miners’ at
Spangler and one is in a critical con-
dition, as the result of sledding acci-
aents last Friday evening
John Kutsor, 11 year old Spangler
youth, was injured when his sled col-
lided with automobile and is suf-
fering a possible fracture of the skull
as well as lacerations of the face and
fracture of the right leg.
James Bennett, eight year old son
of Mr, and Mrs. John Bennett, Mar-
steller, was admitted to the hospital
Hospital
| after he toppled from his sled while |
coasting down a steep hill. He suffer- |
ed a fracture of the
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Miner Is Injured,
George Finet, 47, of Hastings, suf-
fered a fracture of the right leg on
accident at
lich Hill Coal Company mine at
astings. He was removed to Spang-
right arm.
the I
H
ler hospital where his condition is re- |
parted as good.
Ny
—Women will make up 30 per cent
of the labor force in war industries
next year, it is estimated.
| andoah; Michael Kesslack, Johns-
[ Memorial Hospital Nurses Training |town; Paul Myers, Ebensburg, Will-
{iam Frank, Altoona; and Robert Han-
nigan, Elmora.
The St. Francis school of science
| will confer B. 5. degrees un Jos. Ca-~ /
I nole, Altoona: George Bezilla, Phil-
| lipsburg, Renato Feretti, Hastings;
| William Kimball, Ebensburg; Cyril R
{ Myers, Ebensburg, and Bert Williams,
| Patton.
The honary degree of Doctor of
| Letters will be bestowed upon Rev.
RE. J. Cushing, commencement speak-
| er, during the exercises
Vv.
SEER OF GOBBLER'’S
KNOB SUFFERS LOSS
OF FAME DUE 10 WAR
Punxsutawney.—The very famous
groundhog of Gobbler's who
boasts such titles as the Seer of Seers
or the Peer of Prognosticators, and
the world’s greatest weather forecas-
ter, is suffering great loss of distinc-
tion due to the war.
Last year censorship restricted his
prediction of whether there'll be six
more weeks of winter or an early
spring.
Now the 25 members of the Cham-
ber of Commerce have voted unani-
| meusly to cancel the groundhog day
{ banquet scheduled February 2 in hon-
or of the seer’s emergence from hi-
| bernation, an occasion of much fan-
fare here for more than half a cen-
tury.
knob,
2
&
sere os sme
VINTONDALE HAS COSTLY
FIRE LAST THURSDAY
Offcials of Vinton Collieries Com-
pany has set up temporary offices in
the old Vintondale Inn to replace
| those destroyed when fire of an un-
determined origin gutted the large
company building Thursday night,
entailin gdam estimated at over
£15,000.
Threat of :
450 mine
tondale operation
which totalled
{lars is was reve
ficials. The
pay the men «
the pay day
their 3 wl
Flames broke
stone cased bt
11 o'clock and sj
the structure. The floor was us-
ed as a community hall while the
coal company and telephone exchange
occupied the second floor.
V
apt
f
he part of
1in the Vin-
pay roll
thousand dol-
| some employe
saved the
several
Cor
out in the rear of
ilding shortly
ead rapidly t
» first
| CARROLLTOWN BANK
OFFICERS ELECTED
Shareholders of the First National
Bank, C: rolltown, met recently and
elected th lowing d tors: Chas
RF. Sharbaugh, I I ulty, A. A.
Lieb, Edwin H. Binder, Demetriug
{| George and Leo Pfeister.
The directors elected Charles R.,
{ St arbaugh, president; Blair McAnul«
| ty, vice president; A. A. Lieb, vices
|
{
+ M4
president; and M. D. Connell, cashier,
| and Charles R. Sharbaugh, assistang
} cashier, i